Mikheil Javakhishvili: 'Too Late'

Mikheil Javakhishvili was a Georgian novelist regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. According to the modern British scholar of Russian and Georgian literature, Donald Rayfield, "his vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour, subtle irony, and moral courage merit comparison with those of Stendhal, Maupassant, and Zola. In modern Georgian prose only Konstantine Gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same international level."

The most famous works of Javakhishvili are the novel Arsena Marabdeli, Jaqo's Dispossessed (Jakos Khiznebi), Kvachi Kvachantiradze, The White Collar (Tetri Sakelo). However, only one of his works a story called Too Late has been translated into English.